Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: What role for social policies in the framework of the just transition in South Africa?
Number: 7e67272e-9d99-4780-9d59-7f3f8e43df45
Handle: RePEc:avg:wpaper:en13623
Publication-Status: Published in Research Papers
Author-Name: Wendy Annecke
Author-Name: Peta Wolpe
Abstract: This paper explores the extent to which social policies in South Africa might serve as mechanisms to enhance the transition to a low carbon economy and contribute to mitigating some of the negative impacts towards ensuring a holistic and just transition. It attempts to contribute to the fluid and contested nature of the debate on a just transition in South Africa by mapping the entrenched historical implications of coal use, overlaying these with a description of some of the policies developed to address energy and climate change and analysing the extent to which current social protection policies, designed to facilitate well-being, might be harnessed towards a more equitable society and a just transition.
Creation-Date: 2022-02-11
File-URL: https://www.afd.fr/sites/afd/files/2022-02-04-19-58/PR230_social_policy_just_transition_david_godin.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Keywords: Afrique du Sud
Classification-JEL: Q
Length: 33